Letter: Scalia dissent offers warning

In an article, by Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn in the October 2013 edition of Decision, a publication of the Billy Graham evangelistic association, titled, “A Word to Kings and Presidents.” he states that, “when the Supreme Court struck down the biblical definition of marriage..., it did so with the administration’s urging.”

The minority opinion in U.S. v. Windsor, written by Antonin Scalia, said that Justice Anthony Kennedy and his colleagues in the majority have, in effect deemed those not in favor of gay marriage as “hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race.”

So, where does that leave the church, which calls traditional and biblical marriage a sacrament and holy. Does that mean that the church is an enemy of mankind? Where does that leave God Almighty?

We are now beginning to reap the whirlwind for what the court has sown across this once great nation. Over 31 states voted to protect traditional and biblical marriage, and that, too, is under attack.

Scalia closed his dissent with this, “Some will rejoice in the court’s decision and some will despair of it: that is the nature of a controversy that matters so much to so many. But the court has cheated both sides, robbing the winners of an honest victory, and the losers of the peace that comes from a fair debate. We owed both of them better. I dissent.”

In George Washington’s first inaugural address, he ended it with this: “We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.”